In September, Pam Jahnke (WOZN/Q106 Radio, Madison, WI) led a 33-member group on a 10-day tour of local farms in Germany and Austria. Most of the tour participants were either still actively farming, retired farmers or people that grew up on a farm. The group is shown in front of a five-star hotel that attracts its clientele with a stable of 22 Lipizzaner horses and 28 Fleckvieh milking dairy animals.  Hotel guests there can ride the horses or watch in the riding arena open to the lobby. The hotel’s restaurant allows people to enjoy their meal while watching the cows being milked. The farm/hotel was outside of Kitzbuhel, Austria.  Pam said, “Farmers there are trying to acclimate to the world marketplace since the EU has removed many of their previous subsidies. Most that we visited with were trying to come up with value-added options on their farming operations to try and offset the subsidy losses.”   
Pam walks and talks with a farmer on his Brown Swiss dairy farm in Germany about 45 minutes from Munich. She is busy this week broadcasting from the World Dairy Expo. She began her broadcasts from the Expo the day before it opened. The show officially began on September 29.